TITLE: Midnight Sun
NAME: Uwe Brunotte
COUNTRY: Germany
EMAIL: Uwe.Brunotte@gmx.de
WEBPAGE: -
TOPIC: Sea
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: midntsun.jpg
ZIPFILE: midntsun.zip
RENDERER USED: 
    POVRay 3.g1

TOOLS USED: 
    Paint Shop Pro (for the height field). PhotoImpact
(conversion to jpg)

RENDER TIME: 
    4 min

HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium II 400

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 
    This picture shows the rocky coast of the lofots at
north-west norway, july 1997. After a week of rain and clouds my girlfriend and
me saw this night the midnight sun for the first time.
And it was the right moment to ask her to marry me. She said yes.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 

This is one of my first scenes with POVRay and the first I used water. The hight
field is made by hand with Paint Shop Pro, the texture is "hand-made" (try and
error), too. The reddish light reflected by the stones behind us is simulated
by another red light source behind the scene. First the sun was made with the
"halo"-feature, then changed to "media". There was a lot of work with the
clouds, cause the sun should shine through, but parts of the clouds near the
sun should be visible. In fact the cloud-sphere lies behind the sun, so they
are hidden, but the bright halo around the sun is transparent.
The horizon is verry sharp, maybe a little bit of atmosphere or fog the next
time...